Editor's note: reproduced with annotations and links by permission of the
author. Source: edwardcurtin.com; also published at: globalresearch.ca. Also
by Mr Curtin: Why I Don't Speak of 9/11 Anymore, Journal of 9/11 Studies, Sept
2016.
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The Lies of 9/11 Miracle Workers
A Review of David Ray Griffin's
Bush And Cheney: How They Ruined America And The World
by Edward Curtin
August 27, 2017
PHOTO: Politico
C O N T E N T S
* The Will to Examine Miracles?
* The Birth of the Tangled Web
* US Government Lies Subsequent to the 9/11 Attacks
* September 11, 2001
* A Miraculous Precedent: The Assassination of JFK
* A Summation of Griffin's 15 Major Miracles
* The Overwhelming Consensus of Experts
* References
* Reader Reviews
"America's fate was sealed when the public and the anti-war movement
bought the government's 9/11 conspiracy theory. The government's account
of 9/11 is contradicted by much evidence. Nevertheless, this defining
event of our time, which has launched the US on interminable wars of
aggression and a domestic police state, is a taboo subject for
investigation in the media. It is pointless to complain of war and a
police state when one accepts the premise upon which they are based."
--Paul Craig Roberts, How America Was Lost
David Ray Griffin is an international treasure and truth teller, who, while
being ignored by the mainstream corporate media (MSM) for his extraordinary
series of books exposing the false flag attacks of September 11, 2001, will
someday be lauded as a modern prophet. To those who know and have studied his
work, he is an inspiration for his persistent insistence in a dozen books
since 2004[1] that the truth about the US treachery of that infamous day is
essential for understanding the violence, planned by neo-conservatives and
embraced by neo-liberals, that the United States has subsequently inflicted on
the world. He has consistently argued that to believe in the government's
explanation for 9/11, one has to reject logic, scholarship, and the basic laws
of modern science.
Bush And Cheney: How They Ruined America And The World (Northampton, MA:
Interlink Publishing, 2016) is Griffin's latest, and probably last, effort to
reach those people who, out of fear, ignorance, or laziness, have walled
themselves into a cyclopean labyrinth of denial about the defining event of
our time. Without the clarifying truth about the attacks of September 11,
2001, there will be no exit from the continuing nightmare the world is
experiencing.
If you are reading this review, you are probably not one of those people
Griffin is trying to reach. Ay, there's the rub! As the title of his book
suggests, he is using reversed logic to try and reach those who have accepted
the official fiction that is The 9/11 Commission Report (No doubt without
having read it. Outside of serious researchers, I have never met a person who
has, except for some of my students) and all the antecedent and subsequent
government and MSM propaganda.
To this end, the first three-quarters of the book is devoted to the
"destructive transformations of America and the world as a whole" that were
initiated and justified by 9/11, many of which have been accepted by
innumerable people as being based on government lies, most notably the war
against Iraq. Griffin's hope is that if he can convince skeptical readers that
the government would lie about Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, Syria, Yemen, etc.,
resulting in the deaths and maiming of millions of innocent people and the
destruction of their countries, it would also lie about the attacks of
September 11 that "legitimized" such carnage and the ongoing shredding of the
US Constitution.
The Will to Examine Miracles?
It's an ingenuous and compelling method, culminating with his concluding
section on "15 major miracles" of 9/11, by which he means "violations of the
laws of nature" in the strictest scientific sense. Astutely logical, deeply
sourced, and scientifically compelling, the book's conclusion can only be
rejected by one adamantly closed to accepting the ugly truth about the US
government and its media accomplices.
But getting skeptical people to read the book is the trick. I think that is
very hard but much easier than to get the MSM to do so and give it a fair
shake. People have friends whom they trust, and sometimes friends can convince
friends to at least take a look. Speaking of the MSM, Griffin puts it thus:
However, while granting that the Bush-Cheney administration told big and
disastrous lies, which led to millions of deaths, most mainstream
commentators have considered the idea that this administration engineered
the 9/11 attack to be so absurd that they can render judgment without
checking the evidence.
"Judging without checking the evidence" is the job of the MSM, who are
stenographers for the government, but regular people might be persuaded to
check the evidence before reaching a conclusion, if they can be led to that
assessment one logical step after another. One can even hope that left-wing
alternative media critics of the government, many of whom avoid this issue
like the plague,[2] might find the courage to reassess their anti-scientific
denials in light of Griffin's work. After all, "the laws of physics don't
lie," and logical reasoning has generally been a strength of many dissenters,
especially those well-skilled in the art of disputation.
The Birth of the Tangled Web
Griffin is a master logician, so he begins with the obvious fact that the
Bush-Cheney administration failed to prevent 9/11 and therefore failed to keep
America safe that day, as Donald Trump said in a 2016 election debate, for
which he was castigated by his opponents and the media. But he was right; it
is a fact, whatever Bush-Cheney's deceptive excuses. As a result of those
attacks, the US attacked Afghanistan, claiming that was because Osama bin
Laden orchestrated the attacks from that country. No evidence of bin Laden's
guilt was ever presented, though Colin Powell initially said it would be
shortly forthcoming (he quickly reneged on the promise). The invasion of
Afghanistan, planned well in advance of 9/11, was the start of the war on
terror that's been going on for 16 years with no end in sight. A 16-year-old
war based on no evidence, just lies.
Griffin shows how the alleged "evidence" that was eventually produced -- the
bin Laden videos -- were fraudulent; that they were indeed "produced," and not
by bin Laden; they were "bogus" according to Professor Bruce Lawrence of Duke
University, the leading academic expert on bin Laden. And the FBI reported
that it had "no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11." But the
administration and the media sang of bin Laden's guilt in unison. The public,
beaten down in fear and trembling, accepted the claim as a fact, as they were
further traumatized by additional lies about the anthrax attacks that are a
key component of the entire propaganda campaign of fear and intimidation that
resulted in The Patriot Act.
Graeme MacQueen's masterful analysis, The 2001 Anthrax Deception - The Case
for a Domestic Conspiracy, should be required reading; for he shows how the
often forgotten anthrax attacks are intimately linked to those of September 11
and when studied closely, prove that 9/11 was an inside job.[3]
So Griffin begins with the lie about bin Laden that led to the lie about
Afghanistan that led to the illegal and immoral and ongoing war against
Afghanistan and all the millions of deaths and destruction that have ensued.
So knowing how lie leads on to lie, let us count some of the lies that
followed. Griffin documents these in deeply sourced details, but I will list
them concisely:
US Government Lies Subsequent to the 9/11 Attacks:
* That the 9/11 attacks were surprises, a "New Pearl Harbor."
* That there was solid evidence for bin Laden's guilt.
* That the invasion of Afghanistan (and Pakistan) was therefore justified.
* That the "war on terror" and therefore The Patriot Act were necessary.
* That Saddam Hussein was connected to 9/11, was developing nuclear weapons,
and had weapons of mass destruction.
* That the attacks on Muslim countries were not based on Islamophobia.
* That the chaos and destruction unleashed throughout the Middle East were
not pre-planned and intentional.
* That the Obama administration's attack on Libya was a humanitarian
response to the "madman" Gaddafi, who adopted a rape policy fueled by
Viagra drugged troops ready to unleash a blood bath.
* That the war against Syria was not a CIA-instigated plan to overthrow
Assad under the guise of "liberating" the Syrian people.
* That the jihadists in Syria, including ISIS, were not armed and supported
by the US, with many of those arms being shipped out of Benghazi, Libya,
under the direction of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, General David
Petraeus, and Chris Stevens, the US ambassador to Libya.
* That the Syrian "White Helmets" are independent volunteer do-gooders, not
a propaganda outfit funded by the US and UK governments.
* That the wars against Muslim countries throughout the Greater Middle East
are not connected to the Israeli occupation of Palestine and serve as
American support for Israel's agenda in the region.
* That drone killings are legal and morally justified.
* That the US Constitution has not been shredded.
* That the coup d'etat in Ukraine was not a US operation as part of a
continuing US aggression toward Russia and a growing threat of a nuclear
annihilation.
* That the US buildup of military forces along Russia's western borders and
the massive transfer of US Naval forces to China's east are not US acts of
aggression making nuclear war more likely, but are acts of self-defense.
* That the threat of ecological holocaust is not connected to a 770 billion
dollar "defense" budget, a trillion dollar nuclear weapons modernization
program, and US wars against countries containing vast amounts of fossil
fuels and rare minerals.
That is only a sample of the lies that Griffin uses to lead the reader back to
9/11, the alleged reason for the death and destruction justified by such lies.
If the US government would lie in all these ways, he is saying, why would they
not have lied with the Big Lie that started this string of destructive
deceptions?
September 11, 2001
Thus the last section of the book (a little more than 25%) is devoted to
"9/11: A Miraculous Day." Herein he explains why George W. Bush and Dick
Cheney should not be trusted on 9/11. They did not want an investigation into
the September 11 attacks; wanted the public to just trust them. They were
eventually forced into an investigation by public pressure; originally named
Henry Kissinger to head it (don't laugh -- ha! ha!); rigged its makeup and had
Philip Zelikow, arch neo-con and Bush insider, appointed its Executive
Director. In short, they did everything possible to prevent an honest
investigation. And we know that the result was The 9/11 Commission Report that
is a piece of legerdemain on a par with The Warren Commission Report. In other
words, a cover-up.
Griffin shows that "Bush and Cheney lied about their activities on 9/11" and
that their relationship to the subsequent anthrax attacks, a key motivator for
The Patriot Act and "the war on terror," suggest that their administration was
the source of those attacks and therefore the 9/11 attacks. Griffin further
notes how declassified official accounts refute "central features of the
Bush-Cheney account of 9/11."
And then -- the coup de grace -- he shows how the official account of 9/11
depends on "miracle stories." Yet, "a look at the evidence shows that many
people who accept science on tobacco, evolution, and global warming, accept
miracles, implicitly, on the subject of 9/11, especially in relationship to
the World Trade Center (WTC)." Herein lies the great stumbling block to
convincing people of the truth of 9/11. Science, logic, careful reasoning,
evidence, documentation, what you can observe with your own eyes, etc. -- none
of this matters when you are intent on being deceived (or pretending to be)
because of the implications of examining the evidence and reaching conclusions
that are deeply disturbing to your world view, ideology, or sense of self.
To admit that you have believed a pack of lies for years is very difficult to
accept. But regular people of good will can do so. These are the people
Griffin is trying to reach. To convince those who have for years publicly and
professionally dismissed those who have questioned the official version of
9/11 as conspiracy nuts is probably an impossible task. To convince the MSM
that have worked hand-in-glove with the government to conceal the truth is
preposterous. To convince those fine people who are devoted to truth in other
areas to reconsider their positions on this core issue is conceivable. Surely
the world is full of weird events that logic and science cannot explain. But
when the defining event of recent history that has resulted in the world
teetering on the edge of final destruction is explained by at least the
following 15 miracles that Griffin lists, only a delusional person or one
whose will to untruth is set in stone would not be moved to ask how these
could be possible, and draw the obvious conclusions.
A Miraculous Precedent: The Assassination of JFK
I am reminded of that other foundational case in modern U.S. American history:
the CIA-directed assassination of JFK. Dan Rather, the famous CBS news anchor,
was in Dallas that day, and after seeing the Zapruder film (which was then
kept from the American public for a decade), went on television to say that
when the president was shot in the head "his head could be seen to move
violently forward," clearly implying that the shot came from Oswald from the
rear. Of course once the public was able to see the film, it was obvious to
anyone with eyes that he was violently thrown back and to his left, therefore
having been shot from his front right, not by Oswald. Bingo: a conspiracy.
Then in 2012, another famous TV personality, Bill O'Reilly wrote a book called
Killing Kennedy in which he claims that he and his co-author watched the
Zapruder film "time after time to understand the sequence of events," but
still concluded that The Warren Commission was correct and that Oswald shot
Kennedy from behind despite the obvious visual evidence to the contrary.
Miracles then, miracles now -- they seem to define the two key events of
modern U.S. American history for those wanting to obfuscate the truth.
Do you believe in miracles?
Here is a Summation of Griffin's 15 Major Miracles:
1. The Twin Towers and WTC 7 were the only steel-framed high-rise buildings
ever to come down without explosives or incendiaries.
2. The Twin Towers, each of which had 287 steel columns, were brought down
solely by a combination of airplane strikes and jet-fuel fires.
3. WTC 7 was not even hit by a plane, so it was the first steel-framed
high-rise to be brought down solely by ordinary building fires.
4. These World Trade Center buildings also came down in free fall -- the Twin
Towers in virtual free fall, WTC 7 in absolute free fall -- for over two
seconds.
5. Although the collapses of the of the WTC buildings were not aided by
explosives, the collapses imitated the kinds of implosions that can be
induced only by demolition companies.
6. In the case of WTC 7, the structure came down symmetrically (straight
down, with an almost perfectly horizontal roofline), which meant that all
82 of the steel support columns had to fall simultaneously, although the
building's fires had a very asymmetrical pattern.
7. The South Tower's upper 30-floor block changed its angular momentum in
midair.
8. This 30 floor block then disintegrated in midair.
9. With regard to the North Tower, some of its steel columns were ejected out
horizontally for at least 500 feet.
10. The fires in the debris from the WTC buildings could not be extinguished
for many months.
11. Although the WTC fires, based on ordinary building fires, could not have
produced temperatures above 1,800 degrees F, the fires inexplicably melted
metals with much higher melting points, such as iron (2,800 degrees F) and
even molybdenum (4,753 degrees F).
12. Some of the steel in the debris had been sulfidized, resulting in
Swiss-cheese-appearing steel, even though ordinary building fires could
not have resulted in the sulfidation.
13. As a passenger on AA Flight 77, Barbara Olson called her husband, telling
him about hijackers on her plane, even though this plane had no onboard
phones and its altitude was too high for a cell phone call to get through.
14. Hijacker pilot Hani Hanjour could not possibly have flown the trajectory
of AA 77 to strike Wedge 1 of the Pentagon, and yet he did.
15. Besides going through an unbelievable personal transformation, ringleader
Mohamed Atta also underwent an impossible physical transformation.
Griffin examines each of these "miracles" in detail. Taken together, they
reduce the official explanation of 9/11 to a story told to credulous children
who are afraid of the dark. One can only hope that Americans are ready to grow
up and accept that the bogeyman is real and that he is out to devour them and
the rest of the world if they don't awaken from their hypnotic sleep.
The Overwhelming Consensus of Experts
It is important to note that David Ray Griffin is not alone in his assessment
that 9/11 was an inside job done to legitimize disastrous policies at home and
abroad. There are thousands of scholars, religious leaders, scientists,
engineers, airline pilots, firefighters and countless others who agree with
him after studying the evidence. Griffin names many of these experts in his
conclusion. And they are not afraid of the absurd way the government and media
accuse them of being "conspiracy theorists," since they know "as Lance
deHaven-Smith explained in his book Conspiracy Theory in America, [that] the
CIA started using `conspiracy theory' as a pejorative term in 1964 to ridicule
the growing belief, contrary to the Warren Report, that President Kennedy was
killed by people within the US government, including the CIA itself."[4]
Thoughtful people know, and the evidence has long proven, that the US
government is guilty of an extensive list of conspiracies, ranging from the
alleged Gulf of Tonkin attack to its conspiracy to convince the American
people that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and extending back
through many CIA-engineered coup d'etat, the assassinations of JFK, Malcolm X,
MLK, RFK, etc. The name calling has lost its sting when the documentary
records confirm that the name callers are the conspirators.
So if you care about truth, your country, and the world; if you hate to be
lied to; if you care about the victims of American violence everywhere -- you
should read Bush And Cheney: How They Ruined America And The World. It is a
brave and brilliant book. Look at the evidence. Show others. Pass the book on.
Give it as a gift.
And tip your hat to David Ray Griffin, a truth teller extraordinaire, who for
thirteen years has been asking us to wake out of the hypnotic state of denial
that has allowed the liars to bring the world to the edge of destruction.
Griffin's persistence is the sign of hope we all need to join him in the fight
against these unspeakable forces of evil.
References
1. David Ray Griffin Books
* The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush
Administration & 9/11 (Northhampton, MA: Interlink Publishing, 2004),
view all editions in libraries
* The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, A Critique of
the Kean-Zelikow Report (Northhampton, MA: Interlink Publishing,
2004), view all editions in libraries
See Also: The 9/11 Commission Report: A 571-Page Lie
* Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics & Other
Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory (Northhampton, MA:
Interlink Publishing, 2004), view all editions in libraries
* 9/11 and American Empire, Volume 1: Intellectuals Speak Out, D.R.
Griffin & P.D. Scott editors (Northhampton, MA: Interlink Publishing,
2006), view all editions in libraries
* Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and
Action (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006), view all
editions in libraries
* 9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter To congress And The Press
(Northhampton, MA: Interlink Publishing, 2008), view all editions in
libraries
* The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-up & the Expose
(Northhampton, MA: Interlink Publishing, 2008), view all editions in
libraries
* The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why The Final
Official Report About 9/11 is Unscientific and False (Northhampton,
MA: Interlink Publishing, 2010), view all editions in libraries
* Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive? (Northhampton, MA: Interlink
Publishing, 2009), view all editions in libraries
* 9/11 Ten Years Later -- When State Crimes against Democracy Succeed
(Northhampton, MA: Interlink Publishing, 2011), view all editions in
libraries
* Cognitive Infiltration - An Obama Appointee's Plan to Undermine the
9/11 Conspiracy Theory (Northhampton, MA: Interlink Publishing, 2011),
view all editions in libraries
* Bush & Cheney -- How They Ruined America and the World (Northhampton,
MA: Olive Branch Press / Interlink Publishing, December 2016), and
DRG: Why I Wrote Another 9/11 Book, Journal of 9/11 Studies, September
2016
David Ray Griffin Articles
* 9/11 and the American Empire: How Should Religious People Respond?,
lecture at Univ. Of Wisconsin, Madison, April 18, 2005.
* 9/11, American Empire, and Christian Faith, lecture at Trinity
Episcopal Church, Santa Barbara, CA, March 25, 2006
* 9/11: The Myth and the Reality, lecture at Grand Lake Theater in
Oakland, CA, March 30, 2006
* 9/11 and Nationalist Faith: How Faith Can Be Illuminating or Blinding,
lecture at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, CO, October 19, 2007
* What Really Happened on September 11?, DRG interview by Sam Vaknin,
September 7, 2008
* Was America Attacked by Muslims on 9/11?, OpEdNews.com, 2008
2. For a far-reaching analysis of how the exercise of imagination, and the
avoidance of exploring it, blinds many to apprehend how the September 11th
attacks transpired, see Graeme MacQueen's Beyond Their Wildest Dreams: Sep
11 2001 and The United States Left, March 2017.
3. Graeme MacQueen received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard
University and taught in the Religious Studies Department of McMaster
University for 30 years. While at McMaster he became founding Director of
its Centre for Peace Studies, after which he helped develop the B.A.
program in Peace Studies and oversaw the development of peace-building
projects in Sri Lanka, Gaza, Croatia and Afghanistan. Graeme MacQueen was
a member of the organizing committee of the "Toronto Hearings" held on the
10th anniversary of 9/11 and is co-editor of "The Journal of 9/11 Studies"
-- a peer-reviewed, electronic-only journal covering research related to
the events of September 11, 2001.
See Also by Graeme MacQueen:
* Attorneys Hear Eyewitness Evidence of 9/11 Explosive Destruction from
Dr. Graeme MacQueen (44:04), presented at Justice in Focus: 9/11 |
2016, A Weekend Symposium, The Cooper Union, NYC, September 11, 2016.
Note: The youtube film of this presentation was still available in
October 2016. As of March 2017 it has been taken down. The above link
is to a mp3 recording of that film. Sound quality is intermittently
very poor in the first 3:10 min:secs and is fine from then on.
* War On Terror Or War On Democracy? The Physical Intimidation Of
Legislatures, text of talk at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario,
Truth and Shadows, November 18, 2015
* The October 22, 2014, Ottawa Shootings: Why Canadians Need A Public
Inquiry, A Report for Democracy Probe International, October 3, 2015;
and follow-up: "We need a public inquiry into the 2014 Ottawa
shootings," Hamilton Spectator, October 21, 2016
* Graeme MacQueen: A Brief Overview of Some of the Eyewitness
Statements, The Toronto Hearings on 9/11: Uncovering Ten Years of
Deception, September 2011
4. Lance deHaven-Smith is a Professor Emeritus in the Reubin O'D. Askew
School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. He
received his B.A. degree from the University of Georgia, summa cum laude,
and his M.A. and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. A former President
of the Florida Political Science Association, Dr. deHaven-Smith is the
author of over a dozen books on topics ranging from religion and political
philosophy to Florida government and politics. His books on Florida
include: Government in the Sunshine State (co-authored with David
Colburn); Florida's Megatrends (also co-authored with David Colburn); The
Florida Voter; Environmental Concern in Florida and the Nation; The 1998
Almanac of Florida Politics (with Tom Fiedler); The 2000 Almanac of
Florida Politics (also with Tom Fiedler); and The Atlas of Florida Voting
and Public Opinion. Published in 2005, The Battle for Florida: An
Annotated Compendium of Materials from the 2000 Presidential Election
analyzes the disputed 2000 presidential election. His most recent book is
Conspiracy Theory in America, published in hardback by the University of
Texas Press in 2013 and paperback in 2014.
See Also:
* Conspiracy Theory in America extract from the book, OffGuardian.org,
Sp 4, 2016
* Conspiracy Denial in the U.S. Media, Journal of 9/11 Studies, Letters,
March 2013
* Beyond Conspiracy Theory / SCADs - Patterns of High Crime in American
Government, explores the conceptual, methodological, and practical
implications of research on `state crimes against democracy' (SCADs),
American Behavioral Scientist, February 2010
* State Crimes Against Democracy
* The Toronto Hearings on 9/11 Uncut - Day 1 Lance DeHaven-Smith,
PressForTruth.ca, 2011
R E A D E R R E V I E W S
"In this devastating critique of the enduring harm done by the Bush/Cheney
presidency, Griffin provocatively links an informed account of American
foreign policy failures to a definitive critique of the official version of
the 9/11 attacks. All who regard themselves as responsible citizens should
expose themselves to Griffin's arguments set forth so lucidly, persuasively,
and imaginatively in this indispensable book."
-- Richard Falk, Emeritus Professor of International Law, Princeton University
"Contrary to popular opinion, at least in liberal circles, America did not
abruptly turn `Orwellian' once Donald Trump set up his business in the White
House -- by which time that nightmarish transformation had already taken
place. Although it arguably started on November 22, 1963, the transformation
was completed decades later by the Bush-Cheney administration, using 9/11 to
make this roughly democratic nation unmistakably like Orwell's Oceania, a
lawless state devoted to eternal war, whose subjects have no real rights, and
where words like `freedom' and `democracy' bear no relation to reality. The
history of how Bush and Cheney pulled that off -- and how Barack Obama
continued it -- is the all-important subject of this brilliant, necessary book
by David Ray Griffin."
-- Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media, Culture & Communication at New
York University; author of Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform
"David Ray Griffin not only confronts our unspeakable history. He lays it out
-- from Bush and Cheney through Obama into the Trump administration and our
teetering now on the edge of nuclear and ecological holocaust. Is the most
critical origin of our terminal plight the transparent lie of 9/11? It is
exposed here brilliantly by the incisive analysis of David Ray Griffin, who
tells the truth needed for human survival. Will we hear and act on it?"
-- James W. Douglass, author of JFK and the Unspeakable
"If you believe that the willful destruction of the American Constitution,
including the Bill of Rights, warrants a serious debate, the new
finely-researched book by David Ray Griffin -- Bush and Cheney: How They
Ruined America and the World -- is required reading. We tend to forget just
how, under the climate of fear after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush Presidency
in effect hijacked the nation and turned its war machine into a true `weapon
of massive destruction,' whose consequences haunt us today across the world in
the form of ISIS and wars everywhere."
-- F. William Engdahl, author of The Lost Hegemon: Whom the Gods Would Destroy
"Given Upton Sinclair's definition of fascism (`capitalism plus murder'),
David Ray Griffin's extraordinarily well-researched and well-written book on
the lies and crimes of the Bush/Cheney administration leads to an obvious
conclusion: Never has it been clearer that `American Interests,' as promoted
by neocons, constitute the antithesis, the obliteration, of democratic
principles, of the rule of law, and of hope for the future."
-- Robert Shetterly, artist, founder of Americans Who Tell the Truth
"Griffin has done a great service by cogently explaining the events and
agendas that shaped the Bush-Cheney years. The storylines, the propaganda, and
the wars and constitutional destruction are as relevant today as ever, partly
because they ultimately derailed the Obama era. The Bush-Cheney influence over
domestic and foreign policy certainly disappointed and frustrated many Obama
supporters, who had expected him to reverse course. Today, this influence
frustrates Trump supporters who voted for an outsider to `take back
Washington' and give us a respite from perpetual warfare. Unless Americans
understand the nature of the agendas and history of the Bush-Cheney regime,
they cannot begin to perceive ways to alter this trajectory, one that leads
directly to economic and environmental devastation and even nuclear war. A
timely and necessary read for all Americans."
-- Karen Kwiatkowski, PhD, Lt Col USAF (ret), Office of Secretary of Defense
2000-2003
"The United States and the world have changed in fundamental ways -- entirely
for the worse -- since the events of September 11, 2001. In his new book,
David Ray Griffin clarifies why and how this has happened, as well as why the
official explanation of 9/11 could not possibly be true. If one is to read
only one book to understand the world in which we now live, it should be this
immensely important book."
-- John V. Whitbeck, International Lawyer; author of The World according to
Whitbeck
"When I was in the House of Representatives, I introduced Articles of
Impeachment against George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice, because
they lied about the events of 9/11 and took our country into what has become
an interminable war. In this book, David Ray Griffin pulls the covers off the
cover-up. As a nominal Catholic, I'm supposed to believe in miracles; but I
will never believe in the Bush/Cheney/Rice miracles outlined by Griffin. Those
`miracles' are crimes orchestrated by dangerous neocons, who have irreparably
harmed the U.S. and the world. Will Trump bend to the neocons, as did Obama?
For newly-awakened global citizens, this is a must-read primer, which explains
why the world has gone so wrong since 11 September 2001."
-- Cynthia McKinney, Former US Congresswoman, recent Ph.D.
"Sadly, this book is necessary. The US press won't cover it. From the first,
David Ray Griffin contributed his scholarship (and his career!) to unmasking
the Bush-Cheney administration for what it was. His latest account nails down
a full indictment."
-- Josh Mitteldorf, National Institute of Biological Science (Beijing), Senior
Editor of OpEdNews, and author of Cracking the Aging Code
"A clear, cogent, and scrupulously non-sensationalist and non-ideological
presentation of the simple chronological historical and scientific facts, by
one of our generation's most cogent and systematic thinkers. This book should
convince any honest and objective person -- with a political and scientific
I.Q. above room temperature -- that we Americans, along with the rest of the
world, have been systematically lied to by the leaders of both of our major
American political parties. We have been lied to not only about the facts
concerning the American military invasions in the Middle East but also about
the events leading up to, during, and in the aftermath of, the events of
9/11."
-- Daniel Sheehan, Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law, UC Santa Cruz,
and Chief Counsel to the U.S. Jesuit Headquarters' National Office of Social
Ministry
"Griffin's Bush and Cheney is a detailed study of the successful efforts of
'Neoconservative' forces to take over US foreign policy in order to create a
global empire, using the attacks of September 11, 2001, as a key lever.
Griffin demonstrates that this Neocon agenda has shredded the US constitution
and produced a foreign policy that is immoral, criminal, and quite literally
insane. While Griffin focuses on the Bush/Cheney administration, he also shows
how some of its worst policies were continued under President Obama. As a
result, the United States has become the most serious threat to the future of
humanity and life on our planet. If you read this book, you will want everyone
around you to read it. A clear understanding of what America has become is
critical to opposing the self-destructive direction in which we are headed."
-- E. Martin Schotz, author of History Will Not Absolve Us: Orwellian Control,
Public Denial, and the Murder of President Kennedy
"Drawing upon his authoritative grasp of the big picture, Griffin lucidly cuts
through the lies, deceptions and propaganda that have paralyzed the minds of
so many. From 9/11 and the ensuing regime change wars, through to the
terrifying dangers now posed by climate change, this work is an essential
wake-up call for the people of the West. Everyone should read this, and then
act upon what they have learned."
-- Professor Piers Robinson, Chair in Politics, Society and Political
Journalism, University of Sheffield
"We seem to be condemned to living, for the foreseeable future, in a 9/11
world. In his latest book, David Ray Griffin meticulously documents how 9/11
may have provided a pretext to carry out pre-existing plans for the invasion
of Afghanistan and the Shock and Awe attack in Iraq. Griffin takes us back to
Bernard Lewis' framing of `Muslim rage' as the perfect rationale -- very
appealing to Dick Cheney -- to explain its hatred of the West as irrational.
Griffin analyzes Cheneyism -- militarism under a state of permanent war -- as
legitimizing the concept of Creative Destruction, or Manifest Destiny
understood as bombing the Other into democracy. And Griffin projects us
forward, documenting how the Bush-Cheney lies in Afghanistan and Iraq created
the conditions for the Rule of Chaos as al-Qaeda in Iraq turned into
ISIS/ISIL/Daesh. A must read."
-- Pepe Escobar, Editor-at-Large, Asia Times, author of Empire of Chaos - at:
archive.org, Asia Times; summaries at: globalresearch.ca, rt.com
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